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Biblical Womanhood and Christian Living
Role Models for Young Women
Recently,
I have been pondering the influences that young girls and young women
have been surrounded by, in the media. A few extremely "popular" females
come to mind: Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, and many other
young women that are having devastating effects on the younger female
generation.... One of my favorite passages in the whole bible is found
in Proverbs 31, in fact I even use it as the verse for my e-mail
signature. Proverbs
31:30 "Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth
the LORD, she shall be praised. Today, I looked up the
definition of favor in the Strong's exhaustive concordance, it
translates as follows: grace, charm, elegance, and strangely enough,
acceptance
. How
interesting. So, the Bible clearly tells us that seeking after
"acceptance" is deceitful. That's worth saying again! Wanting to be
accepted or popular is deceitful! That is what these girls are chasing,
acceptance and popularity. This powerful little passage in Proverbs 31,
provides us with a very precious promise. It tells us that if anyone
wants a guaranteed way of being praised, they can simply choose to fear
the Lord.
Feminism and Related Issues
Men, the Gender Wars Are Over -- We Won
Congratulations, brothers. Our day is at last at hand, a day of no
responsibility and easy mating access as far as the eye can see. Best of
all, women are convinced that they have done this themselves, and for
their own good. [A sarcastic look back at what feminism has "achieved" for women everywhere.
Not for young readers.
]
Feminism and Related Issues
The First Ladette: How Germaine Greer's legacy is an entire generation of loose-knickered lady louts
Liberation has led to loucheness, a way of life which brings its own
imprisonment. Emmeline Pankhurst would be horrified, but this is where the
remorseless quest for rights has taken the fairer sex. It has overshot
liberty and landed in a sweaty jungle where women are equal to men in
squalor and excess. [
WARNING:
There is a racy photo at the top of this piece -- a picture of feminist Germaine Greer, illustrating the hypocrisy of the "pro-woman" movement.
Not for young readers.
]
Feminism and Related Issues
More Women Embracing Traditional Family Roles in UK
Young mothers are turning their backs on high-powered careers to raise their children, a study has found. Their mothers, or even grandmothers, lived through a time when women fought for full-time work and better pay. But today's generation is returning to the traditional values of home and family - and looking to men to be the breadwinners. [Notice that the liberal commission that studied these results still insists that young mothers are "anxious to go back to work" but are hindered by the lack of paid daycare, etc., etc. -- completely ignoring the findings, which point to more philosophical reasons for this shift.]
Feminism and Related Issues
Why men in ads are dumb, goofy or completely inept
More and more marketers are trying to tap into the overwhelming buying
power of wives and mothers at the expense of their other halves. Dads
are dumb, boyfriends are bumbling and husbands are utterly hopeless as
brands strive to relate to women by showing men as especially goofy or
incompetent.
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Aug 8, 2009 - 11:06:43 AM
Hot Button Issues
No-Fault Divorce
Marriage in the United
States can be both a religious covenant and a legal contract. Different
religions have different views about what constitutes marriage and what
grounds, if any, exist for divorce or anullment. I won't go into the
nitty-gritty of all these theological and doctrinal matters in this
post. For the time being, I'd like to focus on the legal aspects of
marriage, or more precisely, the legal aspects of dissolving a marriage
contract. Specifically, I would like to address the issue of "no-fault
divorce," which I believe could rather be rightly termed "divorce on
demand." A wake-up call about what no-fault divorce is, where it came from, and why we need to oppose it as forcefully as possible.
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Aug 8, 2009 - 2:12:50 AM
Feminism and Related Issues
Housewife Superstars
Way back in the Dark Ages, in the 1950s, a woman's place was in the
home. Like it or lump it, housework was the ultimate satisfying career. If you think those days are long gone, we've got some news for you. Some women who have it all, have had enough.
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Aug 8, 2009 - 2:02:23 AM
Teach Your Children Well
Families gather around TV to do their own thing
Electronic media, once a force for togetherness as whole families
gathered around the radio or television, are now pulling families
apart, according to a report
from the UK’s communication’s regulator, Ofcom. [While we're certainly not Luddites here at LAF, we have long advocated ditching broadcast television, which is a major time-robber and brain drain. But it's also important to keep a tight rein on other electronic media and remember to keep up face-to-face time with family members. Why not read aloud in the evenings or enjoy a family game night around the table? There are so many meaningful ways to connect besides "tweeting" each other from across the room!]
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Aug 8, 2009 - 1:51:22 AM
Hot Button Issues
Oh Yaz, There May be a Problem
Laba is just one of the attorneys preparing to file product liability
(failure to warn) cases against Bayer on behalf of clients who have
come forward with serious injuries they believe are related to the use
of the Yasmin and Yaz birth control pills. “We are now trying to
determine how many cases there are out there now,” says Laba. “These
are women who have either suffered a heart attack or deep vein
thrombosis or a pulmonary embolism or sometimes kidney or renal
problems. They are typically young women between the ages of 17 and 35
or 40.”
Femininity & Modesty
Clothing and the Humanity of the Superfluous
Ideally, dignity in dress does not
necessarily represent hypocrisy; rather, our apparel grounds us in our
identity and keeps us sane. One can marry the outer and the inner with
integrity. The superfluity of clothing clarifies one's
identity. Without the superfluous, we are abandoned royalty: wronged,
unprotected, and out in a storm, a storm that is blind to who is human
and who is beast.
Aug 8, 2009 - 1:41:15 AM
Teach Your Children Well
Large Families and the Oldest Child
When people see our large family, we get the gamut of comments. Often
though, you can hear concern for the older children-especially for the
oldest-as they assume that surely it must be drudgery for her to have
to help take care of them all. And, this might be a natural conclusion
IF you have a jaded view of the blessing of children.
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Aug 8, 2009 - 1:39:19 AM
Feminism and Related Issues
More Feminist Hypocrisy
Our culture seems to project the idea that only jobs that have a
paycheck are worthwhile, and that as long as you are doing work for
someone
other
than your loved ones, it is fulfilling. There are many jobs women do in the workforce that are
exactly the same
as what they could do for their family,
except
that
the women who work for strangers are seen as "fulfilled," and the women
who work for loved ones are seen as "enslaved." Culture says it's
better to work as a personal assistant or helper to a boss, than as a
helper to your husband. [Be sure to read Part One of this super series!]
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Aug 8, 2009 - 12:41:37 AM
Biblical Womanhood and Christian Living
Stressed-out Momma! I Need A Break!
Though I am still the mother of young children, I do have older
children to help me with them. While having older children doesn’t
always make it easier, they are a help most of the time….but it hasn’t ALWAYS been that way! There was a time when I had 3
children 4 and under. Amanda had just turned 4, two weeks before Rachel
was born. It can be tough. It wasn’t much easier having 5 children 10,
8, 6, 2, and a newborn.
Easier.
Funny that that is the focus, isn’t it? Is
it supposed to be easy having the toughest and most important job in
the world? No, I don’t think so, but knowing the Creator of all these
little munchkins sure gives us some answers as to how.
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Jul 27, 2009 - 6:30:56 AM
Teach Your Children Well
Top Five Reasons Not to Send Your Kids Back to Govt. School
Anyone who has kept up with my blog knows that I am no fan of government education. I have made it a point to carry
The Continuing Collapse
on a regular basis, and I try to make biblical, philosophical and
theological arguments in favor of Christian education as often as
possible. However, I recognize the obstacles those of us on my side of
the street face. As many as eighty-five to ninety percent of
professing Christians send their children to the government for their
education. That is simply an astonishing figure considering the fact
that the Christian community fought mandatory government education
tooth-and-nail for it’s first fifty years of existence. Since then we
have gone from fighting against government schools to fighting for them and implying that those who fight against them are fundamentalists, anti-intellectuals, and racists
. In the meantime, our schools grow progressively worse. Well, as we
begin this summer, I want to appeal to those of you with children in
government schools. Please don’t send them back! I beg you to
consider what you are doing.
Responsible Manhood
Leading and Submitting
The biblical beauty of mature masculinity can be contrasted with two distortions that arise, namely
machismo and
passivity.
Passivity is by far the more significant problem in Western culture
today, so I'll tackle this one first. It is also more difficult to
detect; we are immune to it since it is so pervasive.
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Jul 27, 2009 - 6:23:08 AM
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